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rounding error [′rau̇nd·iŋ ‚er·ər]
(mathematics) The computational error due to always rounding numbers in a calculation. Also known as round-off error. Rounding Error the absolute value of the difference between a given number a and the number a* obtained when a is rounded. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Even the dog of the banking sector Citigroup, seems to have shed a few fleas for the quarter and eked out a small profit of $101 million, (barely the rounding error on the other banks results, but a profit nonetheless. Two insights were thus gained: one, that a number can be expressed in many ways, not simply as a unique numeral, and that often this could be more mathematically useful than the unique solution; and, two, that rounding errors accumulated rapidly if one simply tried to carry out each intermediate calculation, and rounded these to a convenient number of decimal places. From this perspective, the 100,000-year history of the human species is a minor rounding error. |
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